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...midst of all this rich success, did 67.6% of Japanese respond to a recent Cabinet Office survey by saying that they felt anxious about their daily lives-the highest angst level recorded since the poll began nearly 40 years ago? Perhaps because they're looking beyond the next club opening or quarterly report, toward a national future that is anything but certain. Despite the country's economic recovery, Japan is still pinned beneath $6.9 trillion in public debt, and that's 1.5 times the nation's GDP, the worst ratio in the industrialized world. A widening gap between rich...
...Damascus and its Lebanese allies began to fight back, accusing the government of being a tool of the West and attacking what it saw as unwarranted interference by the U.S. in Lebanese affairs. Last November six ministers, including all five Shi'a, resigned from the government, shortly before a cabinet vote to adopt a U.N. draft resolution on creating an international tribunal to try those accused of murdering Rafik Hariri. Preliminary findings of a U.N. investigation into the assassination have indicated the involvement of senior officials in the Syrian regime. Since early December, the Hizballah-led opposition has mounted...
Former University President Lawrence H. Summers’s critics, it seems, should be happily sated: Faust appears to be everything Summers was not. In the stead of a bold albeit tactless social scientist and a former cabinet secretary, Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse. Where Summers elicited controversy, Faust brings consensus. Summers’ chauvinistic disregard for the humanities will be replaced by the interdisciplinary tolerance of Faust, who “knows people in just about every department on campus...
...indictment against the former president is based on Decree #27209, which the indictment says makes Sanchez de Lozada and 9 of his cabinet members legally responsible for the military's actions...
...This is not the first time Bolivia's courts have tried to reach the former president in the U.S. In 2005, after the plaintiffs pressed charges, and the Bolivian government sent the U.S. notification papers to be served to Sanchez de Lozada and two former cabinet ministers who also live in the U.S. But although the plaintiffs say they were informed by the State Department that the the papers would be passed on to the Department of Justice, they heard nothing more...